Dad Quote by Matt Dillon

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

— Chuck Eddy

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

— Tina Turner

I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge.

— Don Sherwood

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when…

— Dolores Huerta

I grew up, really, in the country.When I was a kid there were three country stores, a railroad depot, and a post office.

— Jeff Sessions

When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.

— Elizabeth Warren

When I was a child, it was segregated, and I couldn't go across a fence to certain parts of Gainesville.

— Charles Bradley

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the…

— Val Kilmer

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time…

— Tim McGraw

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

— Heidi Klum

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related…

— Quincy Jones

We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids -…

— Glen Campbell